Katie Donovan Books

Katie Donovan explores themes of home and travel, delving into the complexities of identity and place through her poetry. Her verse, often rooted in landscape, is characterized by keen observation and an empathetic gaze upon human experiences. Donovan's poetry delves into the depths of memory and inheritance, offering quiet reflections on what it means to belong and where we come from. Her language is both intimate and resonant, inviting readers to consider their own connections to place and home.

Ireland's Women
Writings Past and Present
552 pages
20 hours of reading
3.6(25)Add rating
From Maeve of Connaught to President Mary Robinson, this book presents Irish women - known and unknown, real and invented - as their compatriots have described and interpreted them. The editors draw upon mythological tales, letters, biographies, autobiographies, newspapers and official reports, as well as poems, novels, stories, plays, recordings and songs, to create this sympathetic selection. The book includes the writings of Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Clare Boylon, Augusta Gregory, Nora Barnacle, Julia O'Faolain, Cecil Woodham-Smith and Maud Gonne.
May Swim
By turns lyrical and sardonic, this new collection from Katie Donovan is characteristically watery – candid and uncompromising in its refusal to inhabit the safer reaches of the shore. Themes of loss, widowhood and ageing co-exist with observations of her wild garden and its inhabitants, including a mangy fox she helps to survive.

Ireland's Women

May Swim